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Spring Hill man hit and dragged 75 feet
SPRING HILL - Matt Mulch didn't hear the screeching tires or the fighting going on across the street from his Spring Hill house Friday afternoon. But his wife did and told him to go check it out. When Mulch ran out the front door of his home on Fentress Court he found the mangled body of Randall Nelson. "His right leg was akimbo," recalled Mulch. "It looked like it was ...
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Education officials head to Tampa to urge “mitigation” of school grading formula
Concerned that another round of changes to Florida’s testing and school grading formula will paint a dire picture of improving education systems, officials from Miami-Dade and elsewhere on Tuesday are headed to Tampa to urge the State Board of Education to reconsider the way schools are judged.This year, important letter grades will be based in part on new exams, higher proficiency cut ...
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41 nabbed in child predator sting
POLK COUNTY, Fla. - A Disney costume designer, a community leader, and a police academy graduate are among the suspects arrested in sex sting targeting child predators in Polk ...
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Operation Shredding 2013 is coming soon
"Operation Shredding" will take place on Saturday, June 29th from 7am to 1pm. Keeping people safe is a top priority. Identity theft continues to be one of the fastest growing crimes in the United States. It's important for consumers to recognize that identity theft is not just a financial crime. It can include criminal identity theft, governmental identity theft and medical ...
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Rookies Bond with Local Youth During Theme Park Outing
On Friday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' newest players joined a group from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Tampa Bay for an afternoon of fun, adventure and educational team-building at Busch Gardens Tampa. The event was part of a whole week of community service and interaction with local youth being enjoyed by the Buccaneers' "Rookie Club." Seventeen Buc rookies teamed up with 20 ...
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Residents say High Point area dangerous
Pinellas County - The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office is investigating an attack in the High Point area near Largo. According to initial reports a woman was walking home from a friend's house when she was assaulted by what may have been two men on Avalon Ave. (south of Roosevelt and west of 58th St.). The woman received cuts to her back but managed to get to a home where the person ...
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Cops Women steal $3K worth of purses
TAMPA - Two women entered the Dillard's at Citrus Park Mall late last month and left with 10 handbags without paying for them. The suspects were captured on surveillance ...
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Tampa to be linked with rest of state via high-speed rail
Tampa may be connected to Orlando via a high-speed railway by 2015 if the project stays on schedule and if politics do not get in the way. But, the long-term future of the grander project may be in doubt, despite the US losing ground internationally.
High-speed rail is a fairly modern advancement on rail travel that has been widely adopted in the modern world as the best form of overland mass transit. Highly developed countries like Japan, the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain have adopted high-speed rail extensively. Read more
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